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The Guardians of the Light 511
right discernment, his firmly-basing law. Therefore it is said of
Mitra that all perfected souls adhere or are firmly fixed “to the
bliss of this Beloved in whom there is no hurt”, for in him there
is no sin or wound or falling. All mortal delight has its mortal
danger; but the immortal light and law secures the soul of man
in a fearless joy. That mortal, says Vishwamitra, who learns by
Mitra’s law, the law of this Son of Infinity, is possessed of prayas,
the soul’s satisfaction in its objects; such a soul cannot be slain,
nor overcome, nor can any evil take possession of it from near
or from afar. For Mitra fashions in gods and men impulsions
whose action spontaneously fulfils all the soul’s seekings.
That happy freedom of all-possession comes to us out of
this godhead’s universality and his reconciling luminous embrace
of things: Mitra’s is the principle of harmony by which
the manifold workings of the Truth agree together in a perfectly
wedded union. The root of the name means both to embrace
and to contain and hold and, again, to build or form in the
sense of linking together the parts or materials of a whole.
Adorable Mitra is born in us as a blissful ordainer of things and
a king full of might. Mitra holds up heaven and earth and looks
sleeplessly upon the worlds and the peoples, and his vigilant
and perfect ordinances create in us a happy rightness of mind
and feeling — sumati, astateofgrace,wemightalmostsay,—
which becomes for us an unhurt abiding-place. “Free from all
undelightfulness,” says the Vedic verse, “rejoicing with rapture
in the goddess of the Word, bowing the knee in the wideness of
earth, may we attain to our abiding-place in the law of working
of Mitra, son of Infinity, and dwell in his grace.” It is when Agni
becomes Mitra, when the divine Will realises the divine Love
that, in the Vedic image, the Lord and his Spouse agree in their
mansion.
The well-accorded happiness of the Truth is Mitra’s law
of working; for it is upon Truth and divine Knowledge that this
harmony and perfect temperament are founded; they are formed,
secured and guarded by the Maya of Mitra and Varuna. That
well-known word comes from the same root as Mitra. Maya
is the comprehending, measuring, forming Knowledge which